Symbiotic: Autumn Song – Tree Music in the Garden
Provincetown Art Association and Museum PAAM
460 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA, 02657
United States
Friday, October 10, 2025
11am to 5pm
Artist Talks at
12pm, and 3pm
Saturday, October 11, 2025
11am to 5pm
Artist Talks at
12pm and 3pm
Curator: James Robertson
Experience the music of plants!
From Attas’s Symbiotic series, this is the second in a suite of sound installations titled The Four Seasons – Tree Music in the Garden by sound artist Aric Attas. Emerging from the success of Summer Song, installed in PAAM’s Sculpture Garden during the 2025 Secret Garden Tour in July, this evolving suite will explore the sounds of Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring. Together, these works celebrate the changing beauty of Provincetown, enhancing the garden as a place for reflection and discovery throughout the year.
Autumn Song – Tree Music in the Garden turns the natural space of PAAM’s Sculpture Garden into an immersive experience as the days grow shorter. It’s a celebration of wonder, perception, and our deep-rooted connection to the constant change of the living world.
Using custom-designed electronic instruments and sensors, Attas draws on the bioelectric energy patterns within the large American Elm tree that shades PAAM’s Sculpture Garden. Signals produced by the plants’ own living processes are transformed in real time into harmonic tones, chimes, and ambient layers. The result: an evolving sonic tapestry where trees sing in harmony with birdsong, water, wind, and ambient human-made sounds.
Visitors are invited to come and go throughout the day, sit beneath the canopy, and let the sounds unfold. It’s a meditative experience—an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and connect with the natural world.
PAAM and Aric Attas gratefully acknowledge the following donors for their generous support of this installation: Marie Hernandez; Brad Lorimier & Joan Ohl; Warren Obluck & Carol Ludwig; Abigail Walters.
Artist Talks with Aric Attas
Friday, October 10, 2025
12pm and 3pm
Saturday, October 11, 2025
12pm and 3pm
In the Sculpture Garden itself, Attas will share the creative process and the natural phenomena that make Autumn Song possible. His practice blends cutting-edge technology with poetic intuition to explore unseen and unheard dimensions of the world around us. Attas’ sound installations incorporate generative ambient music, using data input from the natural world, including living plants and collected field recordings from Cape Cod, sub-tropical Central Florida, and beyond
As you wind up your Secret Garden Tour, please also step inside PAAM’s galleries.
